A good walk: Dundon and Collard Hill, Somerset

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A hot summer morning with a hard blue sky, the mid-Somerset hedges murmurous with bees and hover-flies. The view from the steep slopes of Collard Hill was sensational — Glastonbury Tor to the north, Dundon Hill and Lollover Hill out to the southwest, yellow-green pastures spread out and shimmering in the heat of afternoon. I followed the ridge path west to where the Hood monument’s sailing-ship crown rose above the trees on Windmill Hill. Vice-Admiral Sir Samuel Hood was one of those energetic, apparently fearless sailors who came to glory in Nelson’s navy, and when he died in 1814, his fellow